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Object Type
Museum number: F,6.161
Description: A man mending a quill, sitting at a table covered in books and papers, wearing a flat cap, with a window above to left, in a simple room with a stool and books scattered on the ground; after Rembrandt; proof before letters. Mezzotint
Producer name: Print made by: Richard Houston; After: Rembrandt
School/style: British; Dutch
Production date: 1736-1775
Materials
Technique
Dimensions: Height: 350 millimetres; Width: 252 millimetres
Curator's comments: See Bode, vol. vii, p. 2420, original not known (Charrington).
Bibliographic references: Chaloner Smith 1883 / British Mezzotinto portraits from the introduction of the art to the early part of the present century (undescribed); Charrington 1923 / A Catalogue of the Mezzotints after, or said to be after, Rembrandt (83.I)
Location: Not on display
Acquisition name
Acquisition date: 1753
Acquisition notes: with Philipe's large pencilled HS; this would imply that the print was made before 1753.
Department: Prints and Drawings
Registration number: F,6.161

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